You can still make Vegas with the FReepers Aug 17th! 18 Days to go!

FRN ^ | 7-30-02 | Bob J

[Bob J]

There's still time to make Vegas for the FRiva conference! Cheap airfares are out there and and rooms still available!

Go HERE for information!

[Fred Mertz]

I'm hoping to meet lots of Freepers I haven't met in person yet there. Hopefully, those within a few hundred miles will make the effort to join us.

[Maceman]

Hopefully, those within a few hundred miles will make the effort to join us.

I'm coming in all the way from Boston. Hope there will be more than four of us there.

[DCBryan1]

BOB J,

How many people do you have confirmed so far?

DCBryan1

[Fred Mertz]

I'm going for the fun and professional development aspects.

[Just another Joe]

18 days and counting BUMP.
I'm so excited that I feel like a schoolgirl on her first date!
No comments from the peanut gallery.

[Fred Mertz]

School girl bump.

[A Navy Vet]

Learning effective activist skills bump.

[anymouse]

If you don't all sign up to attend the FRiva Los Vegas conference, we're going to put "that picture" of you in the banquet slide presentation and everyone will have a good laugh at your expense. :)

Sign up now and avoid the embarassment.*

* Bribes are also acceptable, but signing up for the conference is cheaper. ;)

[PoisedWoman]

http://www.bestfares.com has some terrific air fares to Las Vegas. I don't know what membership costs, probably nominal, but they always have good deals to every destination.

From their page:

Date: 07/29/2002
Purchase By: 07/30/2002
Last Travel: 01/10/2003

Members Only: 44 U.S. Cities To Las Vegas From $38 RT Thru Jan. 10, '03
Bestfares.com members can travel from 44 U.S. cities to Las Vegas from $38 roundtrip. You could save up to $150. Request AU-25 Special when booking. Here are the fare rules:

- Travel days vary.

- A two-night stay and a 14-day advance purchase are required.

- The maximum stay allowed is 30 days.

- Blackout dates are November 27 & December 1, 2002.

- Governmental taxes and other fees may apply.

The roundtrip fares and cities are:
$38 - Los Angeles, Ontario (CA), Orange County and Burbank
$53 - Salt Lake City, Reno, Phoenix, San Diego and Tucson
$93 - San Jose (CA) and Sacramento
$153 - Albuquerque, Portland (OR) and Seattle
$173- Hartford, Providence, Manchester (NH), Albany, Buffalo, Burlington, Baltimore, Richmond, Charleston (WV), Raleigh, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Cleveland, Detroit, Columbus (OH), Louisville, Nashville, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Omaha, Chicago, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, New Orleans, Austin, San Antonio and Houston
$213- Wichita

[Just another Joe]

If you don't all sign up to attend the FRiva Los Vegas conference, we're going to put "that picture" of you in the banquet slide presentation and everyone will have a good laugh at your expense. :)

NO, NO, NOT THAT picture.
I'll go, I'll go, just don't put THAT picture into the banquet slide show!

[Doctor Stochastic]

Notes from a visit a couple of weeks ago:

Best Buffet: Rio by far. (Go at lunch $11 vs $16, same menu as far as I can tell.)

Video Poker: NY NY (or maybe Showboat) has 6-9 machines whereas Belagio, MGM, Monte Carlo, Rio, Palms, Orleans, have 5-8.

Belagio's Music & Fountain is nice (every 1/2 hour.)
Liberace Museum: worth visiting. Be sure to get one of the coupons. (Why pay $12 when you can get in for $6.)

It will be hot. It's a dry heat. So's an oven. (I was there in 1994 in 117F heat, it shouldn't be that bad.)

[Bob J]

Looking forward to meeting you!

[Bob J]

Thanks poised woman!

[strela]

"All my bagggs are packed and I'm ready to goooo ..."

Well, actually my bags are not packed (except for my shaving kit but that stuff sits around a long time between trips anyway except the bar of soap which I finally took pity on and replaced with a bar you can't see through and the bottle of Ramada Inn shampoo which I used on the last trip to put conditioner in because I couldn't have found the bottle of conditioner I normally take on trips if you had held a gun to my head) because that would be silly and I'd be down to an old Megadeth concert T-shirt, battery acid-scored pair of jeans, tube socks with JB Weld stuck to the sole, and old Kamiseya Japan ball cap if I packed all my clothes now. But I have dusted my bags off, removed all the old tags the airlines put on them, and even cleaned the business cards, sample packs of some really bad venison jerky I got in Tennessee a few weeks ago, playing cards I thought I had lost, and old fuzzy half-eaten rolls of Life Savers out of the pockets. And, since my sister's insurance paid off last week from when she lost her house in the Show Low fires, I might even have a guest in Vegas that weekend! So, I'll see you there (if I can get some sleep between now and then).

The preceding rant was brought to you by the word "insomnia." Insomnia; There's Actually a Lot of Stuff on TV At 3 In The Morning!

[anymouse]

Just another Joe,

Note to self, take embarrassing photo of "Just another Joe" out of the FRiva Las Vegas slide show. :)

Any more FReepers feeling particulary guilty, wanting to wipe out photographic evidence of their sins? Sign up now and all will be forgiven. (At least forgotten. :)

[Just another Joe]

Someone is trying to keep me from getting there, at all. THEY WILL NOT SUCCEED!

I book my flight on Vanguard, they file chapter 11.
I book my car with Budget, they announce they will file chapter 11.

They will NOT succeed, I WILL be there, even if I have to ride a bicycle!